Eric Garner died in police custody in part because for several decades the NYPD has doggedly enforced smaller, seemingly innocuous "quality-of-life" crimes. According to Mayor de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bratton, the NYPD will continue to strictly enforce laws against loosie peddlers and subway dancers. "I can understand why any New Yorker may say, that's not such a big deal," de Blasio said. "But a violation of the law is a violation of the law."

Commissioner Bratton added, "It's important that when an officer does approach you to correct your behavior, that you respect them. That's what democracy's all about."

“The judge’s well-reasoned decision validates what we have said since the beginning: There was no crime,” she said. “Gil Valle is innocent of any conspiracy. Gil is guilty of nothing more than having unconventional thoughts.”

“Gil Valle has been in jail for 18 long months, 7 months in solitary confinement, for a crime he absolutely didn’t commit,” Gatto added. “We’re relieved he will be free and incredibly grateful to Judge Gardephe for upholding the awesome and fundamental legal principles at stake here, including our core freedom to be able to think what we want free of government intrusion.”

As RT reported in 2012, an FBI investigation into Valle’s online activity found a series of unsettling documents and statements, including one file titled, “Abducting and Cooking (Victim-1): A Blueprint.” Inside were details regarding the birthdate and bra size of a woman and a list of materials needed to carry out a kidnapping plot.

“I was thinking of tying her body onto some kind of apparatus… cook her over low heat, keep her alive as long as possible,” the document read, according to court papers.

The FBI’s complaint also alleged that Valle discussed kidnapping a woman for a third party.

“I will really get off on knocking her out, tying up her hands and bare feet and gagging her,” he wrote. “Then she will be stuffed into a large piece of luggage and wheeled out to my van.”

Although Judge Gardephe granted Valle’s acquittal based on the idea that he did not commit a real crime, he acknowledged that these writings were “misogynistic” and “highly disturbing.”

“Once the lies and the fantastical elements are stripped away, what is left are deeply disturbed misogynistic chats and emails written by an individual obsessed with imagining women he knows suffering horrific sex-related pain, terror and degradation,” the judge wrote, according to the Post.

“Despite the highly disturbing nature of Valle’s deviant and depraved sexual interests, his chats and emails about these interests are not sufficient – standing alone – to make out the elements of conspiracy to commit kidnapping.”

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Oh please, as if none of you have ever planned a murder in intricate detail.

My plans involve leaving a man naked, several kilometers into the deep woods, drenched in animal fat, blood and urine from a bitch in heat, which I'd pick up from a kennel using the excuse that I'm a college student collecting a sample for a lab study. The wolves will do the actual killing and disposing of evidence.

I suppose if I wanted to do it in a less complicated way I could just drag them out into the woods, bash their brains out with the shovel or pick, and then bury them in a shallow grave, but there is no fun or art in that.

My plans involve leaving a man naked, several kilometers into the deep woods, drenched in animal fat, blood and urine from a bitch in heat, which I'd pick up from a kennel using the excuse that I'm a college student collecting a sample for a lab study. The wolves will do the actual killing and disposing of evidence.

this is actually a terrible plan for killing a person even assuming you live in an area with plenty of wolves

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